IPv6 ingress filter

Tue May 14 16:36:00 UTC 2019

Hello Jordi,

Thank you for your feedback on both lists.
It's important to note that the filter suggestion is not about the protocol, but about the 2002::/16 prefix.

Amos

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On 14 May 2019, at 18:52, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <jordi.palet at consulintel.es<mailto:jordi.palet at consulintel.es>> wrote:

Hi Amos,

Just responded in another mailing list on this:

6to4 is still a valid protocol. IT SHOULD NOT be filtered. 6to4 uses the same protocol as other tunnels such as 6in4 (protocol 41).

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3056.txt

It works fine for peer to peer applications.

What the IETF deprecated is anycast for 6to4 relays:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7526

I believe Hurricane Electric still hosts 6to4 relays.

Regards,
Jordi

El 14/5/19 17:32, "NANOG en nombre de Amos Rosenboim" <nanog-bounces at nanog.org<mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org> en nombre de amos at oasis-tech.net<mailto:amos at oasis-tech.net>> escribi?:

Hello,

As we are trying to tighten the security for IPv6 traffic in our network, I was looking for a reference IPv6 ingress filter.
I came up with Job Snijders suggestion (thank you Job) that can be conveniently found at whois -h whois.ripe.net<http://whois.ripe.net> fltr-martian-v6

After applying the filter I noticed some traffic from 6to4 addresses (2002::/16) to our native IPv6 prefixes (residential users in this case).
The traffic is a mix of both UDP and TCP but all on high port numbers on both destination and source.
It seems to me like some P2P traffic, but I really can't tell.

This got me thinking, why should we filter these addresses at all ?
I know 6to4 is mostly dead, but is it inherently bad ?

And if so, why is the prefix (2002::/16) still being routed ?

I would love to hear some thoughts on this, and understand if others are actually filtering this at both data plane and control plane.

Thanks,

Amos Rosenboim
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